President of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Tadateru Konoe spent a whirlwind two days in Guyana assessing the country’s disaster preparedness and prevention.
The visit by Konoe, who is also President of the Japanese Red Cross, marks the first time that a sitting president of the IFRC has visited Guyana.
At a press briefing yesterday, he said that Guyana and other Caribbean nations needed more cohesion and to work together to assess how to prepare for common interest areas. “We requested Caricom to invite us as an observer to their